To:LYDIA FOTIEVA AND L. B. KRASIN

Written:Written on October 9, 1918Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

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Lyd.Al.(and Krasin)

Iam signing the telegram about oil, ships, etc., with
pleasure.

ButI don’t agree to sign that about
Mukhin.[1]

(1)Krasinwrites that Mukhinconcealed money from
Stalin. This he hadno rightto do, even if “on the
instructions of his (!!??) chiefs”, for Stalin too is a chief, and a
higher one, too, though not “his”.

(2)Itis wrong formally and impermissible generally to
decide thiswithout asking Stalin(and Stalin is in
Moscow!!).

Greetings,Lenin

[1]Krasinasked Lenin to sign a telegram to the Tsaritsyn
Extraordinary Commission for them to set free N. Mukhin, an employee
of the Chief Oil Committee, who had been arrested, and allow
him to travel freely to Moscow. Krasin proposed sending a copy of
the telegram to Stalin in Tsaritsyn.